Reading
Level 1

Benchmark: Read short paragraphs with understanding.

Suggestions for Portfolio Development

• notes on overcoming noise distractions at work
• list showing letters in one column and words in another
• list of new vocabulary learned, sorted into categories
• list of compound words found on street signs
• alphabetical list of friends' phone numbers
• lists of basic texts read and new vocabulary words written with their definitions
• audio tape of self orally describing the difference between a calendar and a day-timer
• notes taken during pre-reading discussion
• a diagram drawn to help understand a text
• a flow chart showing the time sequence of a short story

Learning Outcome #1

Learners will demonstrate reading readiness skills.

Knowledge and skills set:

• Identify and discuss challenges to reading.
  • setting (e.g., individual, classroom, job)
  • tutor-student relationship
  • learning or physical disability
  • distracting noises
  • limited vision
  • anxiety level
• Recognize and pronounce letters of the alphabet selected randomly.
• Discriminate between upper- and lower-case letters, vowels, and consonants
• Recognize that reading in English proceeds from left to right, top to bottom.
• Follow print with your eyes or finger.
• Discriminate between a letter and a word.
• Identify print that you currently read in daily life (e.g., environmental print such as a stop sign, restaurant name, magnetic letters on a fridge).